The food situation may worsen in 17 more countries. This was stated by Oleg Kobyakov, Director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) office for relations with Russia, in an interview with RIA Novosti at SPIEF-2024.
He said there are traditional “hunger hotspots” such as the Gaza Strip, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan and some other African countries.
However, due to armed conflicts, natural disasters and the effects of climate change, new “hungry” countries may emerge.
Earlier, the UN reported that there is a “full-blown famine” in the northern Gaza Strip that is “moving south.”
Officially, hunger is defined as when at least 20 percent of households in a given area suffer from extreme food shortages, at least 30 percent of children suffer from acute malnutrition, and in addition, two out of every 10,000 people die per day due to apparent hunger or hunger-related diseases.